plural of annihilator method

(computing) A method or means, usually a software or hardware component of a mainframe, to access data on an external storage device.

Synonym of D'Hondt method

A highest-averages method for allocating seats, used to achieve proportional representation in elections.

(linguistics) A method used to study an unknown language, consisting of archaeological and antiquarian analysis, formal-structural analysis, and content and context analysis.

Synonym of Socratic method

plural of virtual method

(object-oriented programming) A method whose behavior can be overridden within an inheriting class by a method with the same signature.

(mathematics, obsolete) An old kind of calculus in which lines were considered as made up of an infinite number of points; surfaces, as made up of an infinite number of lines; and volumes, as made up of an infinite number of surfaces.

(mathematics) A method for finding successively better approximations to the roots (or zeroes) of a real-valued function.